About this title: You know the old debate over the Missa Solemnis, the whole "Is it sacred music for the concert hall or secular music for the church" question? Don't worry about it. The issue doesn't come up in this 1994 recording of the work with Georg Solti conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. For Solti, the answer is an obvious one: the Missa Solemnis may have a sacred text, but it is in every way a dramatic work for the opera house. But what a dramatic work! Remember, this is Solti, the screaming skull, the conductor who transformed Wagner's Ring into the Greatest Story Ever Told, but whose power and ...
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